Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 50

He spoke the French language so fluently that he had almost forgotten his own; he could dance well, he could ride well, and orders grew on his coat in an astounding way.

Who acts: war, orders · What happens: speak, forget, dance, ride, grow · To what, where: French language, own, coat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, orders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 language	det
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 language	amod
5	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 fluently	advmod
7	fluently	fluently	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 forgotten	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 forgotten	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 forgotten	aux
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 forgotten	advmod
12	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 spoke	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 own	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 forgotten	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 dance	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dance	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 dance	aux
18	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 spoke	parataxis
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 dance	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ride	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ride	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 ride	aux
23	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dance	parataxis
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 ride	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 grew	cc
27	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 coat	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 coat	nmod:poss
31	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 way	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 way	det
34	astounding	astounding	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 way	amod
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	war	the French language		fluently property	tree rules
2	forget	past · perfect	war	war's own		almost property	tree rules
3	dance	could	war			well property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ride	could	war			well property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	grow	past	orders		war's coat	in a astounding way	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coat=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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